The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Gordon Cumming likened an Afri-
can jungle to a forest of ish-hooks re-
lieved by an occasional patch of pen
knives.
Miss Catherine Wolfe helped a
number of girls through yassar, with
out letting them know from whom the
money came.
In Great Britain last year forty
seven books on Ireland were published
and thirty-one on the subject of Shake
speare and his life.
Mr.. Lincoln, who was seldom too
busy to listen to good story, used to
admit that but for the relaxation gained
in this way he could not have stood the
great strain to which he was subjected.
-Harper's Bazaar.
-Ex-Chief Justice Greene, of Wash
ington Territory, throughout his sew
enteen years service on the bench,
always refused to accept free pass
from any transportation company.
He is said to be the only official in the
Territory who has had such scruples. ,
The title of the man the American
girl, Miss Carroll, recently married in
Vienna is the Count Anton Won Heus-
senstamm, OF Heissenstein and Grafen-
hansen, Baron of Starhemberg, Cham
berlain and Lieutenant in the Uhlan
Regiment of Archduke Carl Ludwig,
No. T. Chicago Herald.
Mary Stewart, a negro woman of
Taliaferro County, Ca, has invented a
car coupler that Is said to be simple
and about perfect. She says that the
idea came to her like dream and she
made model, according to her vision,
out of old "oyster cups" Mrs. Stew
art was the first slave born to Alex
ander FL. Stevens. 7. San.
Miss Mary Tillinghast is one of the
most successful among the women who
have made a business of decorative art.
Vanderbilt once paid her $4,000 for
inventing a new kind of tapestry hang
ings for his houses. She supplied the
designs for the stained-glass window
just erected in Grace Church, New
York, representing Jacobs Dream.
AS Thackaray's women characters
have been difficult to understand among
vast number of readers and critics,
the following opinion of women from
the author may be read with interest:
Il am afraid l don't respect your sex
enough, though he writes to friend.
Eyes | do, when they are occupied with
loving and sentiment rather than with
other business of life. - Chicago Times.
Among the works which have been
recently translated into japanese is
John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress. :"
1t is hardly to be wondered at that this
wonderful book should have taken hold
of the Japanese mind at once. From
certain recent reports, made by local
missionaries and others, it is gathered
that Bunyan's immortal allegory is the
most popular book in Japan. Indian
apolis Journal.
-Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, says the
New York Sun, picks up great deal
of material for literary work during
the season, and resorts unblusingly to
Irritation in order to get it. At the
close of vacation on the Isle of Shoals
he babe goodbye to young lady with
whom he had carried on Irritation,
with the words: 81 am very glad I
met you; you have been worth at least
$500 to me-"
The sons of the late extra Billy"
Smith, of Virginia, were fond of adj
venture. His oldest son, William
Smith, was midshipman in the navy
and was lost in the Indian Ocean.
Austin Smith, the great bowie-knife
fighter, was killed at the battle of
Seven Pines. Peter Bell Smith was ac-
cidentally killed by a pistol soon after
the war; James Caleb Smith and
Colonel Thomas Smith figured prom
inently as duelists. OF Extra Billy's"
children but three survive him-a
daughter, Colonel Thomas Smith and
Captain Frederick Smith, of New Mex
leo. Philadelphia Press.